Button and the method of ornamenting the same



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C. L; WOODBRIDGE.

Button and k'heVlVIe'thoof Ornamenting the Same.

No. 240,489. Patented April 19,1881.

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CHARLES L. WOODBRIDGE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

BUTTON AND.THE METHOD OAF ORNAMENTING THE SAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 240,489, dated April19, 1881.

Application filed February 28, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES L. WOOD- BRIDGE, of Brooklyn, in the countyof Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Buttonand Method of Ornamenting the Same, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to producein buttons of pearl, bone, orother suitable material, in a comparatively inexpensive manner, theeffects or appearance ot' inlaid or inserted Work or figures.

The invention consists in cutting the pattern, gure, or design entirelythrough the button-blank, in then securing on `the back of the blank,with some suitable adhesive substance,

a piece of metal-foil, gilt, silvered, orotherwise colored paper, 85e.,that shall be seen through the open pattern or design, land in thenapplying over the back of the button, hard and smooth, a coating ofcollodion, celluloid, as-

phalt, varnish, cement, or other suitable material.

Figurel is an enlarged plan ot' a button made by my process, with partbroken away to exhibit other parts. Fig. 2 is a transverse section ofthe same on line x Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

In thedraWngs,A represents the button with .the design in figures a cutentirely through it.

B represents a piece of metallic foil or other 'suitable material,secured on the back of the button A with some adhesive substance, so asto cover the said design or gures a and be seen through them from thefront, and C represents a coating of collodion, celluloid, varnish,

or other suitable substance, covering the back of said foil B, toprevent the edges of said foil or backing B from becoming broken ordetached, and' to make the back of the button smooth and hard. The eyesb ofthe button A are pierced through the foil and coating B C.

Asseen from the front, the bright foil or colored paper B, seen throughthe open designs a, produces the effect, or has the appearance, ofinlaid points or figures of metal or other bright substance, and asthese open designs or patterns can be made of any shape, and as thebacking can be of any desired color, many styles ot' buttons can therebybe produced.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patentl. The method of ornamenting buttons, substantially asherein described, which consists in cutting the pattern or figurethrough the button-blank, in then securing oh the back of the blank,over the said figures, with some adhesive substance, a suitable backing,such as foil,and in then applying to the back of the foil a coating ofcollodion, varnish, Celluloid, 0r other suitable substance, as setforth.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, abutton having a designortgures cut through it, and having secured on its back, so as to beseen through the open design or figures, a suitable backing, such asfoil, substantially as set forth.

CHARLES L. VOODBRIDGE.

Witnesses:

I. I. SToEER, C. SEDGWICK.

